<p>I'm fairly happy with "mint" at the moment. I haven't upgraded a mint distro yet, but the version I'm on seems to smooth out some of the issues or rough edges people commonly have with Ubuntu.</p>
<p>Other than Debian though, I haven't seem many distros handle installing to (or accessing from livecd) LVM volumes without some degree of pain. MD-RAID+LVM is particularly annoying.</p>
<p>After install, make sure to access the chroot, install lvm2, add to the modules file (both /etc and the initramfs-tools one) and update-initrd<br>
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<div class="gmail_quot<blockquote class=" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">| From: Mark Lane <<a href="mailto:lmlane-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org">lmlane-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org</a>><br>
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| The other issue I had though probably not unique to FC18, was<br>
| installing the fglrx drivers.<br>
<br>
My understanding is that Fedora isn't interested in supporting<br>
non-free drivers. I also understand that ATI's binary drivers don't<br>
quickly follow kernel changes. Since Fedora trys to adopt upstream<br>
kernels promptly, you end up with a problem. One that recurs.<br>
<br>
Ubuntu does try to support non-free drivers. If you want to use the<br>
nVidia or ATI video drivers, try Ubuntu before Fedora. That's what I<br>
do: on my desktop, I use open drivers and Fedora; on my media<br>
machines, I use Ubuntu.<br>
<br>
Even so, Ubuntu still has problems. "Jockey" completely screwed up on<br>
my nettop with an AMD E-350. For about a year!<br>
<<a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-common/+bug/873058" target="_blank">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-common/+bug/873058</a>><br>
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| It didn't stop there. I have steam installed and wanted to try and run<br>
| Counter Strike on my new FC18 box. It claimed it couldn't find one of<br>
| the libgl files. After 2 hours of search, I found out that the problem<br>
| was I only installed the 64 bit version of libgl and it was looking<br>
| for the 32Bit version.<br>
<br>
Fedora is really not designed for binaries from other origins. It<br>
works with source code from other sources.<br>
<br>
I'd have imagined Counter Strike and Steam were built primarily for<br>
Ubuntu (I haven't checked) since that is the most popular distro and<br>
is more binary-driver friendly that Fedora.<br>
<br>
Luckily I'm not a gamer. Steam would be temmpting. But I don't trust<br>
it from a security standpoint.<br>
<br>
| My current procedure for updating my kernel is:<br>
|<br>
| 1) Install new kernel and kernel sources<br>
| 2) Reboot to boot to runlevel 3<br>
| 3) Install akmod-fglrx<br>
| 4) Rebuilt fglrx kernel modules<br>
| 5) uninstall akmod-fglrx<br>
| 6) reboot<br>
|<br>
| Do you expect some noobie to do that?<br>
<br>
Thanks very much for the roadmap.<br>
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